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Monday Morning Mentions

Monday Morning Mentions is an opportunity to reflect on the events of the week at the Armchair Genealogist and in the blogging and book community. Over my morning cappuccino, I will take the opportunity to share with you some of my favourite blogs posts this week and give a nod to my peers.

Social Media for the Genealogist - this will include social media advice and learning opportunities from experts both inside and outside of the genealogy industry.

This week's mentions:

In light of all the discussion this week on the blogs of earning an income from genealogy and the various opportunities that exist, I've chosen an article from a blogger who always keeps me thinking. This is infact a podcast, Pat Flynn shares his insights in affiliate marketing in this week's podcast Affiliate Marketing The Smart Way - How to Stop Hoping and Start Earning from the Smart Passive Income Blog.

Books that Move and Matter - each week we will feature an ebook or print book with the family historian in mind. It may come as a great source of information, for research or writing or playing to our historical interests, or may just be a great read I think genealogists will love.

This week I'm sharing a book by one of our own.This past weekend, I personally started reading Stored Treasures by Smadar Belkind Gerson.

Smadar discovered her great-grandmother's journals while researching her family history, that resulted in her first non-fiction book.

Minnie Crane lived through two world wars, pandemics and the Great Depression. Thirty years since her death, Smadar has brought her great-grandmother's story to the world through her personal diary.

"Minnie came from an extremely humble beginning and made huge sacrifices. Her telling account sheds light on the story of Belitsa, a little town in Russia, now part of Belarus, a Jewish community obliterated by the Nazis. It also traces immigration of many Jews to America at the turn of the twentieth century."

I would like to wish Smadar much success with such a beautiful accomplishment. You can find Smadar at her blog Past-Present-Future.

7 comments:

Lynn, what a great bunch of links this week. I nodded my head to James Tanner. I commented to my cousin's husband that so and so on his old Familysearch tree was incorrect and he agreed with me. But, he told me, he can't remember his password and there is no way he can get in there and fix it. He's tried. So, there it remains to be carried on as fact. And sure as shootin', I have some of those faux pas in my tree as well, although I do know my password and change/update things periodically. And Biff Barnes post about creating dialogue: I always try to complicate things - I love his example of the teenage boy wanting to come to America. Yes, I'm going to try that. Treeline's post about adding younger members to a genealogical society: Wow, that old schoolmarm critique - I can see her bony finger pointing at me for my persnickity ways, even as I struggle to adapt right now by writing just such an article for my next newsletter. One thing I have learned in my 60 years, I believe, is that there are many lessons for us to learn from the young. I have learned several from my daughters. My atoms, as I heard on her youtube link, are altogether different from my atoms of 5 and 10 years ago. However, I wish those Shakespeare atoms would start working their magic right about now. And finally, that "Stored Treasures" book looks like a must read. To Chapters on line I head. Thanks.

Thank you so much for your interest in my new blog, Treelines.com! And thank you for your interest in what we're building. I'll let you know when we're ready to start sharing our tool with the public. In the meantime, thanks so much for reading! I really appreciate it.

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